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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 67., Aprii, 11. '67. 



of the Civil Law. Whereupon he made his appeal to the 

 Regent Masters ; but, seeing that could do no good, he 

 took absolution," &c. 



In Rymer's Fcedera, also, Thomas Sampson is 

 mentioned as a Professor of Cinil Law. 



In Le Neve {Fasti, Oxon., 1854, iii. 192. 146.) 

 we find him, in 1332, among the prebendaries of 

 York ; and, in 1334, as Archdeacon of Cleveland. 

 At p. 123. we are told that the same Thomas 

 Sampson, having been elected Dean of York by 

 the Canons, Nov. 2, 1342, his " election was made 

 void by the Pope, in favour of Talyrandus de Pe- 

 iragoricis, bishop of Albanen., and a Roman Car- 

 dinal," [the same who acted as Pope's Legate 

 before the battle of Poictiers ?] 



The Dodsworth MS. xxvii. 136., discloses to us 

 who this Thomas Sampson was : " Ego Thomas 

 Sampson, Canonicus Ebor., condo Testamentu. 

 Lego Corpus meii sepuliend. in eccl'ia Cathedrali 

 Ebor.," &c. So begins the will of a younger son 

 of Sir John Sampson (or Samsom) of Nun-Apple- 

 ton, whose name and arms are found in Pari. 

 Writs, as well as those of Sir William Sampson 

 (or Saunsum), of Eperston, co. Notts., who would 

 seem to represent the elder branch of the same 

 family. 



Maria, the mother of this Thomas Sampson, 

 was manifestly a Fauconberg. Francis Drake 

 (York, Lond., 1736, p. 385.), after explaining how 

 Nun-Appleton was divided between the Falcon- 

 bergs, Sampsons, and the heirs of Brus, the latter 

 holding of the barons Moubray, who held in capite, 

 adds, that " the manor of Southwood, in Appleton, 

 was sometime the land of Richard Falconberg ; 

 and was given by him to Sir John Sampson of 

 York, Knt., and Mary his wife, their heirs and 

 assigns." 



And this is corroborated by the fact that dom. 

 Joh. Sampson is the first of several witnesses to 

 an agreement made between Richard de Faucon- 

 berg and the prioress of the convent of Appleton ; 

 as appears by The Monasticon, in he. Moreover, 

 Dodsworth tells us (MS. 160. 144. Collinghara 

 Ch.) that " Brocket of Brocket Hall in Yorkshire, 

 and Brocket Hall in Hartfordshire, was descended 

 ofFawconberg and Sampson of Appleton;" and 

 that '* his heires were married to Sir John Spencer 

 of Offley in com. Hartford." B. S. J. 



WALTONIAN QUERIES. 



John HockenhuU, Esq., in his Pleasant HeX' 

 ameter Verses in Praise of Mr. ( Thomas) Barkers 

 Book of Angling, asks : " Markham, Ward, Law- 

 son, dare you with Barker now compare ?" 



Qu. Who was Ward, and what did he write ? 



Walton, 5th chap, of Complete Angler, says, "Dr. 

 Boteler said of strawberries," &c. &c. Hawkins 

 and Sir Harris Nicolas suppose Boteler to be Dr. 



William Butler of that time, whom Fuller calls the 

 Esculapius of his age. But was there not a Dr. 

 Boteler ? I have an indistinct recollection of see- 

 ing the name Boteler in an old book catalogue. 



Was the apothecary Lobel named in " the Great 

 Oyer of Poisoning," son of Matthias de Lobel, the 

 botanist, whom James I. invited to England ? He 

 is referred to by Walton, chap. xiii. 



^' Allamot." — What does Walton mean (chap. 

 XV.) by ^'' Allamot salt?" Is it salt from Alto 

 Monte in Calabria ? * 



Who was Robert Nobbe ? I have a book of his 

 manuscripts containing, among other and miscel- 

 laneous matters, a record of the baptisms of Robert 

 Nobbe's children from 1669 to 1701 ; and a re- 

 markable MS. ditto, art. Piscatoeia, with the 

 flies for each month, very nearly the same as 

 Cotton's. It is followed by a paper bearing date 

 1669. If the MS. on fishing be of the same date, 

 or not later than six years after. Cotton must have 

 taken much of the second part of the Complete 

 Angler from this Robert Nobbe. He was pro- 

 bably a clergyman. Can any of your correspon- 

 dents tell anything about him ?t 



Cotton^ s Pecuniary Embarrassments. — Are they 

 not suflUciently accounted for by the litigious dis- 

 position of his father, who seems also to have been 

 in his latter days an intemperate liver ? See 

 Clarendon's Life (vol. i. p. 36.), Ox. edit., 1827. 

 Charles Cotton, the son, was also dissipated in his 

 habits, though it is thought he had reformed him- 

 self when Walton knew him. Riveelensis. 



Societas Coquorum, Oxford? — Is anything now 

 known of such a Company, as mentioned in the 

 subjoined copy of a printed notice, fixed inside 

 the cover of a copy of dementis ad Corinthios 

 Epistola prior., Oxon., 1633 : — 



" Richardus Stone (in cujus aedibus hac lucubrationes 

 composuit doctissimus Junius) hunc librum dono dedit 



[* The American Editor of The Complete Angler says, 

 that "Allamot is most probably a corruption of Alto 

 Monte in Calabria, where there is a salt mine, for- 

 merly of great value and much worked, though now 

 neglected ; but even that acrid salt could hardly turn a 

 bleak into an anchovy."] 



[t The Rev. Robert Nobbe, M.A., was author of Com- 

 plete Troller; or, the Art of Trolling, 8vo., Lond. 1682 ; 

 new edition, Lond. 1814. Sir Henry Ellis, in his Cata- 

 logue of Books on Angling, says, " From the circumstance 

 of the author of this work signing himself M. A. at the 

 end of his verses on the Antiquitie and Invention of Fish- 

 ing, and from the Commendatory verses by Cambridge 

 men in the first edition of this work, printed in 1682, I 

 suspect him to have been the Robert Nobbe mentioned in 

 Bishop Kennett's Manuscript Collections, as holding the 

 vicarages of Apethorp and Wood Newton in Northampton- 

 shire, in 1675. I believe he succeeded Dr. Robert 

 South."] 



